‘Punk star Iggy Pop will collect a living legend award at the Marshall Classic Rock Roll of Honour awards later this year. Pop, who was the lead singer of The Stooges, will pick up his prize on 2 November in London. “All those years of banging away in the dives and palaces of the weird […]
Free VST Plugins: SIR1 Reverb effect
Freeware VST reverb plugin: SIR1 This is a reverb device that works with “impulse-responses”. Impulse-responses are generated by recording short broadband signals and their corresponding room-reflections. What you get contains the information needed to reproduce the same room with other signals Download for free here
Free VST Reverb Plugin: Voxengo OldSkoolVerb
From Voxengos free vst plugins range: OldSkoolVerb This is a reverb unit plug-in suitable mainly for instruments and sounds which do not have sharp percussive elements to them, otherwise this reverb sounds too edgy. This reverb is great at creating additional ambience. Download for free here
EQ and Compression: Bass Guitar
Bass guitar: tricks, tips and advice on getting the most out of equalization and compression. Home recording and DIY production is a tricky old business for the newly initiated. With each new software program, vst plugin, hardware and technique their comes a new challenge. As with the other instruments I’ve talked about on this site, […]
Joe Meek
‘I wanted to create a picture in music of what could be up there in outer space.’